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Vanderbilt Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Journal of Experimental Political Science : Associate Editor

Comparative Political Studies : Editorial Board Member

Journal of Politics : Editorial Board Member

Political Behavior : Editorial Board Member

Electoral Volatility in Latin America

Maximizing Benefits from Survey-Based Research

Threat and Information Acquisition: Evidence from an Eight Country Study

Can experience overcome stereotypes in times of terror threat?

Representing the national economic agenda in Latin America: Variation by fat and lean times and party brands

Political parties provide a crucial link between voters and politicians. This link takes a variety of forms in democratic regimes, from the organization of political machines built around clientelistic networks to the establishment of sophisticated programmatic parties. Latin American Party Systems provides a novel theoretical argument to account for differences in the degree to which political party systems in the region were programmatically structured at the end of the twentieth century. Bas


Latin American Party Systems

How do threats of terrorism affect the opinions of citizens? Speculation abounds, but until now no one had marshaled hard evidence to explain the complexities of this relationship. Drawing on data from surveys and original experiments they conducted in the United States and Mexico, Jennifer Merolla



Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public

Zechmeister received her Ph.D. from Duke University in 2003. Her research focuses on comparative political behavior and public opinion, in particular in Latin America. Her work includes studies of voting, ideology, political parties, representation, charisma, and crisis. Zechmeister has received support from the National Science Foundation for investigations into the public opinion consequences of terrorist threat and natural disaster, respectively. She has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Behavior, among other outlets. She is co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Latin American Party Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2010). She is co-editor of The Latin American Voter: Pursuing Representation and Accountability in Challenging Contexts (University of Michigan Press, 2015). In 2012, she was the recipient of the Vanderbilt A&S Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and in 2015 she received the Vanderbilt Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. Her courses focus on Latin American politics, Mexican politics, research design, and comparative political behavior and public opinion.

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Behind Latin America’s protests, a fading faith in democracy

The Key Factors for Protests Around the World

Latin America awash in troubles amid protests, uprisings and a distracted Washington

How a Vanderbilt professor is working with Facebook to understand fake news

Did Maduro's party really dominate Sunday's election in Venezuela? These polls should make you skeptical.

How terrorist attacks can change opinions and elections — including the 2016 election

Exclusive: Most Americans support torture against terror suspects - Reuters/Ipsos poll

Poll: Most Americans back torture of 'terror' suspects

The Political Culture of Democracy in the Americas, 2016/17: A Comparative Study of Democracy and Governance

How News Consumption Shapes the Security Agenda: Evidence from Latin America

News Consumption, Crime, and the National Agenda. Political Behavior Workshop

How Does Terrorism Affect the Way We Think About Politics?

Using Technology to Improve the Quality of Face-to-Face Surveys: LAPOP’s FALCON

Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science and Director of LAPOP

Democracy is “on the defensive” in the Americas, say officials with the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) at Vanderbilt University. New survey data was released Sept. 26 at a news conference in Miami.

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State of Democracy Measured in Americas

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